Far smaller slim image. A slim build now comes down at around 175 MB, near enough 89% smaller than the last release, the local models, the packages around them and the tools that installed them all gone from it; what that changes about the way an instance behaves is set out under Changed below and in the documentation. Commit, Commit
Smaller standard image. The image no longer carries a second copy of Python, two sets of fonts nothing ever loaded, packages nothing imports, or the tool that installed them, taking about 170 MB off a standard build. #29731, #29723, #29725, #29726, #29728, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
Skills from a terminal. Skills a connected terminal server offers now sit beside workspace skills everywhere skills are picked - the "$" and "/" menus, the integrations menu and the skills panel, each marked Terminal - and are used the same way: picking one puts its instructions, its folder and the files it ships with in front of the model, and a model that was only told a skill exists can open it itself. They follow whichever terminal is selected and clear when that changes. Commit
Terminal instructions file. A model working with a terminal is now handed the AGENTS.md sitting in that terminal's home directory, read afresh at the start of every turn, so the instructions you keep beside your work reach the model without being pasted in. Commit, Commit
Automatic skill discovery. Every skill you can reach is now listed to the model by name and description, and the full text of one is loaded only when it decides to use it; before, a skill you had not selected in the message box was invisible to it, and this applies to models with built-in tools on. Commit
Model background images. A workspace model can now carry a background image, uploaded in its editor and drawn behind the chat whenever that model is selected, sitting below a folder's own background and above your personal one, and it travels with the model through export and import. Commit
Skill creation from a chat. Typing "/skills:create" in a chat that already has content, with a terminal selected, turns the workflow you just went through into a reusable skill written to ".agents/skills" under that terminal's root working directory rather than whatever folder the shell happens to sit in, and authored to Open WebUI's skill standards. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
Terminal tabs per command. The terminal pane now carries a tab for each command a model is running alongside your own shell, so you can watch them as they go, move between them and take the shell yourself, each tab opening with the command that produced it. Opening the pane puts you in a tab, starting your shell where nothing else is running, and closing the last tab folds the pane away again. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
Folder uploads to terminals. The file browser beside a terminal takes a folder now, dropped onto it or picked from the Upload Folder entry in its menus, and rebuilds what is inside it as it goes, subfolders and all, where before a drop uploaded only the files sitting loose at the top. Commit, Commit, Commit
Side-by-side file comparison. Picking two files in the file browser lights up a Compare button that lays them side by side or one above the other, numbering the lines, marking what was added and removed down to the part of the line that changed, counting both, and letting you swap which is which or leave whitespace out of it, a choice it remembers; a terminal too old to offer the comparison says so rather than failing quietly. Commit, Commit
Suggested prompts in your language. A fresh install now offers its suggested starter prompts in the language the interface is set to, rather than the same four in English for everyone, and the model defaults panel carries a way back to those defaults once its own suggestions have been edited. Commit, Commit
Exa result length cap. Web search through Exa can be held to a number of characters per result, set beside its key in the admin web search settings or as "EXA_MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH". Commit
European web search option. Staan can now be picked as the web search provider, giving deployments that need search inside the EU an option they do not have to host themselves, configured from the admin web search settings or through "STAAN_API_KEY", "STAAN_MARKET" and "STAAN_MAX_SNIPPETS". #30138, #26006, #30303, #30301
Per-language names and descriptions. A model, tool, skill, function, banner or arena entry can now hold its name, description, starter prompts and valve labels once per language, written in a searchable table in its own editor or brought in as a JSON file, which is refused where a translation drops one of the placeholders the original fills in. The interface shows the wording for the language it is set to, and falls back to the plain text where that language has none. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
Interface text you can reword. An administrator can now replace the interface's own wording language by language from a panel in the admin settings, with a replacement refused where it drops one of the placeholders the original fills in. Commit
Turning off the sign-in form. The box asking for an email address and a password can now be taken off the sign-in page from the authentication settings, where until now it could only be set before the server started, leaving single sign-on or a directory to sign people in. Commit
Custom file metadata. Metadata attached to an uploaded file now travels with the pieces that file is split into and arrives with the retrieved sources, the oversized and internal fields left out, and an operator can name in "RAG_SOURCE_METADATA_KEYS" which of those fields the model itself gets to see alongside the text. #29499, #29486, Commit, #29502, #29696
Quick delete shortcut. Holding Shift over a note in the list or grid, or over a row on the automations page, turns its trailing controls into a delete button, removing the entry in one click rather than the three the menu and its confirmation ask for. #29635, #29633, #29640, #29637
Diffs are drawn as diffs. A diff or patch block in a reply is now laid out as one, with the file and hunk headings, the old and new line numbers, and the added and removed lines picked out down to the part of the line that changed, and a button to switch to the plain text and back. Commit
A formatting switch for notes. A note you can edit carries a Formatting switch in its menu: turned off, Markdown you type or paste stays as the characters you wrote, a paste keeps its plain text, and a web address is left as text, while formatting already in the note is untouched. Commit
Admin model list filters. The models page in the admin settings can now be narrowed to the base models a connection offers or to the ones built in the workspace, alongside the filters for enabled, disabled, visible and hidden. Commit
Settings search by name. The search box in settings now matches each setting's own name and description rather than a keyword list kept per page, in whichever language you are using and regardless of accents, it leaves out anything your permissions do not let you change, and opening a result no longer clears what you typed. Commit, Commit, Commit
A model for every chat. Opening a conversation whose model has since been retired no longer leaves it stranded with nothing selected; it falls back to your default model, then the configured default, then the first one available, and a chat that still has a live model keeps it. #29757
Non-blocking search. Searching the text of chats and knowledge, and the grep a model runs over a knowledge base, now run beside the rest of the server rather than in front of it, so a long search no longer keeps other requests waiting. #29621, Commit
Lighter shared note editing. Notes written by several people at once no longer echo every keystroke back to the server once per watcher; the traffic between editors falls by half with two of them and keeps falling as more join, so shared notes stay smooth as the room grows. #28185
Sorted knowledge listings. The "ls", "tree" and "find" commands a model runs over a knowledge base now sort by name and take "-t", "-S" and "-r" for newest first, largest first and reversed. #29840
Authentication type header. A request to an OpenAI or Ollama connection now carries "X-OpenWebUI-Auth-Type", saying whether the person behind it signed in through the browser or called with an API key; its name is set with "FORWARD_USER_INFO_HEADER_AUTH_TYPE" and "{{AUTH_TYPE}}" works in custom headers. Commit
Follow-up ghost text. Once a reply has finished, the first of the follow-up questions it suggests now sits greyed inside the empty message box as well as under the reply: Tab writes it out, and typing anything of your own clears it away. Commit
